Saturday, 8 November 2008

1. Install a hard drive in a laptop2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone4. Jailbreak an iPhone5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor's Wi-Fi11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo16. Abstain from buying extended warranties17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories18. Fix your parents' computer over the phone without looking at a computer19. Enter the Konami code20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone21. Type quickly using T9 texting22. Program a universal remote23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel24. Hide porn from your significant other25. Avoid DRM on everything26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry31. Hackintosh your PC32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games34. Get around web content filters on public computers35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password36. Securely erase your data so it can't be recovered37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network38. Build a fighting robot39. Write your own Firefox plugins40. Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS41. Get something on the front page of Digg42. Get through to executive customer service43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s44. Rip a DVD to DivX45. Build your own computer from parts46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS50. Talk about things that aren't tech related

I got 40. Including the fact that I had to skip all the Apple-related ones. (O_o)